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Which scientist proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?
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Ptolemy
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- Ptolemy
- Aristotle
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Johannes Kepler
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Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model, which states that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system.
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